Transactions at Play

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When players play, there is a transactional process at work, whether for children on a teeter-totter or pandas playing with peers. In this edited volume, nine experts on play show how play transactions are an important dynamic of play across cultures, age groups, even species. A rich array of play contexts is evident across the nine chapters, encompassing varied continents, age groups, and sorts of players. The play processes of giant pandas, of home-visiting therapists, of Polynesian women, and of autistic kids are included here. The healthy interchange of ideas about play, one of the hallmarks of the Association for the Study of Play, is a process that is cultivated in this new volume.The undergraduate early childhood education students conducted face-to-face
interviews with elementary school personnel and obtained answers to questions
from a twelve question recess survey. Students then used the data gleaned from
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Transactions at Play

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Cindy Dell Clark

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University Press of America - 2009-05-16

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